To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character.
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I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.
It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.
In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.
When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.
You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.
I just like the prospect of playing lots of different types of characters and just the opportunity to challenge yourself, do something different and surprise people.
With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.
I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out - and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy.